Baratunde Thurston shared thoughts on diversifying newsrooms, digital storytelling, and how alt-weeklies can become more inclusive by beating little brown children with our newspapers. "They'll never forget you."

Anton Gelman explained how to make money off video on your website, even if you don't have the resources to produce your own videos. He showed how AAN members can share photos and videos on the AltWeeklies Content Exchange.

In the cover critique, art directors commiserated and learned they're not alone in having to include more and more promotional material on their once-sacred front page.

When we asked editors what their single biggest challenge is, this is what they told us:

Peter Conti of Borrell Associates informed us that of the $16.4 billion spent on local digtal ads last year, 46 percent of that spending went to non-journalism sites. Conti will reprise his convention appearance in a webinar on Wed., June 27.